Suprtool/Open: our latest product offering, can go wherever you want to go:
With other products, migration may involve recoding and retesting with only a subset of functionality. But our new Suprtool/Open is a complete migration of Suprtool.
See the latest information at: Suprtool/Open.

Oracle 12 Compatibility

Oracle 12 has some changes in it that doesn't allow for older versions of Suprtool to connect to
databases using the Oracle 12 client. Suprtool 5.7 Build 6 and higher now properly connects to Oracle
databases using the Oracle 12 client.

This impacts Itanium and Open versions of Suprtool.

1/27/2015

Obfuscating Test Data (Follow-up)

In 2014, Robelle support was asked for a method to Obfiscate or make unreadable some
test data. We came up with a method and documented it in
this HowDoI article.

Taking this article and the need for many of our customers needing to do this, we enhanced Suprtool to have a function that would translate characters in
such a way as to make such fields as the Company Name, First/Last name of people etc to be unreadable in a quick and easy manner. This is
intended for when you make copies of test data and want to make some of these fields unreadable.

So instead of using the Table and having define each field, you can now do the following:

Suprtool $-Function Definitions
We've grown the list of Suprtool if and extract functions so much over the years we are adding the
Suprtool Funtions List and Examples to the manual for Suprtool 5.7. Follow the link for the
first stab at documenting and providing examples of the various functions inside Suprtool.